I'm one of the cofounders of Figma , a collaborative browser-based interface design tool. My main contributions were to the rendering engine, the multiplayer collboration service, the vector and text editors, and the plugin system.
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Collaborative peer-to-peer applications sometimes need to operate on sequences of objects with a consistent order across all peers. For example, a peer-to-peer photo album application might need to sync the order in which photos appear in an album.
Collaboratively editing strings of text is a common desire in peer-to-peer applications. For example, a note-taking app might represent each document as a single collaboratively-edited string of text.